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Just watched Ricky Gervais Golden Globe award. Last thing he said was absolutely spot on.
It's so ridiculous that a movie stars have became a political or environmental activist, despite the fact that most of them are full of shit. Like Leonardo DiCaprio who talks about Global Warming on Oscars and then goes off to spend a week on a super yacht that creates more pollution in a week than an average family in a year.
I like Leo as an actor, but he's not a physics Noble prize winner, so I don't give a shit what he thinks about environment.
https://youtu.be/W-mE0KZnzyc

The death of Qasem Soleimani by Iranian artist Mana Nayestani.

History repeats itself... Trump's military escalation with Iran came about the right time.

“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”

Year 2019 is almost over and we are entering the 20s ladies and gentlemen!
I'd like to share someone special at the end of the year, because we are not just starting a new year, we are beginning a new decade. So we have to pay more thoughts to our future planning.
I’d like to share an amazing talk with an illustration done by Ray Dalio about the principles.
Ray Dalio is hedge fund manager, one of the richest men in the world who decided to share with the world secrets of his success. Ray has proven that he is real deal, he is extremely successful and his lessons can help you guide yourself in the next decade.
Happy New Year, folks!
https://youtu.be/B9XGUpQZY38

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Merry Xmas folks !

New year celebrations in one of the Russian schools. The show to kids how they're going to be beaten up if they decide to go on protest against regime.

Pretty accurate documentary about Putin coming to power.
Its painful to watch this and recall about about those times today. People were just happy that drunkard Boris Eltsin had left (that's how low was the bar), but nobody expected that new sober president will rob all of the people of oil riches and create one of the worst dictatorships in the world.
https://youtu.be/V1sZ5er60DY

Shortest motivational speech ever.... and probably the most truthful one
https://youtu.be/4s3bJYHQXYg

Just re-watched Peter Thiels Talk about competition.
Just a little summary:

Copetition is for losers, most profitable modern companies are monopolies.- "all happy companies are different, all unhappy companies are the same"

If you want to be successful in business you must build monopoly regardless of the size of your market(in fact its best to start from tiny market that nobody notices).

Try things which are not only new for you, but also new for rest of the world.

Growth is important, but robustness is even more important - will company be alive in 10 years. - "you want to be the last mover.."

Vertical integration capital intensive, but effective.

Ability to get fast adoption is critical if your product is adopted at the high speed. (This is the idea I misses previously and I think most companies are not doing a great job in this area especially as they get larger).

When lots of people are trying to do the same thing, it is often the sign of insanity.

Competition makes you better only at things you're competing on.


https://youtu.be/3Fx5Q8xGU8k

List of old climate predictions.

Chinese are living in an Orwellian nightmare

Chinese government is monitoring conversations in messaging platforms and cage people like animals.

Another reason to support Telegram and never use any of the messengers that are allowed in China.

https://twitter.com/ezralevant/status/1201174299639533577?s=19

Turkey who is being fed every day by man, thinks that man is turkey's best friend. Until the day when man decides to kill it.
This example illustrates idea of Black Swan.
We can't correctly predict the future inside complex systems based on information from the past. So we are left with managing risk and optionality.
Nassim Talebs idias continue to blow my mind.